Tuesday, 25 September 2007

Microsoft Unified Health Enterprise Platform to Drive Personalized Cancer Treatment

Microsoft’s unified health enterprise platform, Azyxxi, has been selected to aid in the development of personalized cancer treatment programs.

Picked by the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute based in Tampa, Florida, Azyxxi will be used to assimilate large quantities of diverse data, including electrocardiograms, magnetic resonance imaging scans, dynamic angiograms, ultrasound images and, ultimately, genomic information, providing a visual gateway for instant access to the information, and allowing researchers to make and prove their hypotheses within minutes instead of months.

“As a product developed by physicians, Azyxxi works the way clinicians and researchers work. It provides rapid results with minimum clicks, and allows for specific queries to help analyze and visualize data,” said Ed Martinez, chief information officer at Moffitt.

Personalized medicine holds the promise to better align patients with treatment programs. Azyxxi will help in the mining of data that allows Moffitt to make appropriate clinical and scientific discoveries, setting the stage for relating genetic information to clinical practice.

“Azyxxi’s ability to correlate information and present it in a cohesive way can help any health organization tackle almost any challenge, and this is another great example of that,” said Peter Neupert, corporate vice president of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp.